Experiments and simulations show how long-range contacts can form in expanded unfolded proteins with negligible secondary structure.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on January 22, 2013

Authors

Wenli Meng1, Nicholas Lyle, Bowu Luan, Daniel P Raleigh, Rohit V Pappu

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400, USA.

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